EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: What are the lessons for IDF force build-up following the Hamas attack on October 7 and the Iron Swords War? A recent article by Prof. Azar Gat concludes that “there is no need to increase the scope of the forces and the existing force build-up should be continued, the main [element] of which is investments in technologies that are the key to the advantage of the IDF on the battlefield and for the current achievements.” We do not agree with this conclusion and believe it to have negative strategic consequences. The continuing inability of the IDF to realize the goals of the current war is mainly the result of a lack of ready and available maneuvering units, a lack that military technology cannot compensate for no matter how good it is. If the IDF is to be able to fulfill its responsibilities, it needs more well-trained maneuver divisions to resurrect the territorial defense organization as well as maintain technological superiority.
Israel Under Fire – Detention, Prosecution, and Punishment following the October 7 Massacre
E. Rowell: This is an exhaustive review of the legal consequences Israel can apply to the murdering, raping, beheading, and burning psychopaths of the 7th of October 2023. It is difficult to comprehend that Israel, the victim of this genocide, thinks in great detail about the justification for the punishment for these atrocities, while those who commit them feel it is their sacred duty to commit genocide. They kill, rape, and maim as easily and with no more forethought or afterthought than putting out a cigarette.
By Lt.-Col. (res) Maurice Hirsch, JCPA 29 May 2024
Captured members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force in an Israeli prison (Israel Prison Service)
Executive Summary
On the morning of October 7, 2023, more than 3,000 terrorists from Gaza, including members of Hamas and other terror organizations, invaded Israel and conducted a heinous massacre. The terrorists were joined in the massacre by Gaza residents. In response, Israel launched a war against the Palestinian terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip and in Judea and Samaria. During the war in Gaza thousands of terrorists were killed and thousands more were detained, including terrorists who participated in the massacre and other terrorist activities.





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